Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I think the bad reviews are from people that believed it was real, and were embarrassed to admit they were " tricked" . This is a Hollywood rendition of a story , real or not . It was masterfully done , unnerving and disturbing , as good horror should be . I loved it!

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This comment is based only on the first few minutes because I couldn't sit through the rest of it.It poses as a real story, with Mila Jovovich introducing herself as an actress who plays the part of a psychologist and some of what follows may be disturbing and it's all God's truth.I could barely concentrate on her pretty face and girlish voice because the director kept cutting from one sentence to the next, and provided Jovovich with a background of a constantly moving series of tree trunks. Makes for a great visual after effect. (I'm a psychologist too.) But it also makes you wonder whether the director and editor were spaced out themselves.In the next few minutes, one slice of baloney neatly follows another. The first "witness" we see is a harrowed middle-aged woman overly made up to look ghoulish and who has been told never to blink while she narrates her part of the story. We next see Jovovich being hypnotized by another psychologist, which is at least an interesting idea, but the camera moves in a leisurely circle around her, sometimes with the image being blotted out completely by sunshine streaming through the office window.None of this suggests "a true story." It suggests a production in which Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" was an inspiration but which has succumbed to all the current fads of fast editing and constantly moving cameras that is a legacy from MTV.Some might gawk at it. I just winced.

You've heard about those old 'snake oil' salesmen in the Old West right? Well it seems one of them decided to make a movie. And much like the garbage bottles of ointments and tonics those old con-men made a living from, this movie too is at best worthless and at worst harmful. The movie begins by vigorously stating that the whole thing is based on actual events and real archive footage. The only problem is that very quickly it appears that the so called 'real' footage is somehow not quite right. It kind of hits you in increments... First these poor alien victims seem to be acting up. Then there's all the make-up they seem to be wearing. Then there's the edited camera angles during their interviews. Then there's the over the top captioning to the effect of 'this footage is really real', even down to the point when someone is screaming it reads...'screams'. And then finally there's the police cam footage of some local lunatic killing his family and then blowing his brains out and suddenly it becomes painfully obvious... it's all lies.Frankly I was relieved that the efforts of the editor and director in faking all this footage had been so woefully poor. I was glad I didn't live in a world where hysterical and obviously disturbed individuals are further harmed by well meaning but totally incompetent therapists (I know, don't say it!). But after this came the anger at the realisation that once you glean, as you quickly will, that it's all a load of smoke and mirrors the movie is not good enough anymore to actually stand on its own feet. It seems it was solely dependent on the audience's believing in it for any of its appeal. Without that it's just all melodramatic screaming, nonsense scripting and cliché madness. But it's worse than that, it's irresponsible. Without getting personal, any rational individual will understand that alien abduction is about as likely as a duck quacking the complete works of Shakespeare in Morse code. (No really, there are statistical analyses of the probability of alien abduction and let's just say it's a number with so many zeros you can't fit them on a calculator). So it's safe to say that people who actually do believe that they've been abducted or visited by aliens are probably in need of emotional help or else suffering from the terrifying and unfortunate symptoms of sleep paralysis. So what effect is this kind of trickery going to have on them?Perhaps the director thought this would be a more radical version of the Blair Witch project? Only the problem is, whereas few people are traumatised by a real life belief in having been attacked by an undead witch in the forest, many people actually do believe in aliens and some of those people are clearly unstable. By consequence of its shameless fraudulence this movie thus has some explaining to do to the young and impressionable, those who don't have a firm grip on reality and those who are in need of therapy. And also to everyone else who watches it, because movies should be good enough to be entertaining without having to rely on manipulation and lies damn it!